Test 1 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…
«Steve Irwin got eaten by a croc, right?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: croc · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: Steve
This is test 1 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: «Steve Irwin got eaten by a croc, right?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 2 | Steve | Steve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | Irwin | Irwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Steve | flat |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 croc | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 croc | det |
| 8 | croc | croc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 eaten | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past · passive | a croc | Steve | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No, he was bitten by a shark while he was filming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bitten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bitten | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitten | aux:pass |
| 5 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 shark | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shark | det |
| 8 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitten | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 filming | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 filming | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filming | aux |
| 12 | filming | film | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bitten | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past · passive | a shark | he | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | film | past · progressive | he | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
No, he is still making shows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 making | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 making | advmod |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · progressive | he | shows | still | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Product |
Option 3
Yes, a crocodile ate him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 ate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crocodile | det |
| 4 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | a crocodile | him = he | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, he died in an extremely rare stingray accident
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 accident | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 accident | det |
| 7 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 8 rare | advmod |
| 8 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 accident | amod |
| 9 | stingray | stingray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accident | compound |
| 10 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | he | in a rare stingray accident | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in accident=Attribute |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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